Review: A Flair for Fun
A Flair for Fun is a new book from the team who created A Flair for Hair, Bilyana Di Costanzo and Mauro Di Costanzo. Like A Flair for Hair (read our review), it takes animals and puts them in situations […]
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Review: Prank Lab
This book will blow your mind (perhaps quite literally!). Exploding with prank potential, this is THE book to get your little loves if they are into whacky science fun. Prank Lab ticks all the boxes. Let’s start with design. A […]
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Review: Fearless Friends #1 Graffiti Fighters
It is the first day of the first year at High School for Evie, her cousin Willem, and friend Bella. As she leaves home, Evie can’t imagine what the day has in store for her. She discovers her old neighbour, […]
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Review: Have You Seen My Friend?
Rabbit has a friend. But she keeps disappearing. Like magic. They’re playing cards, they’re playing table tennis, they’re playing chess, and then poof! Rabbit’s friend is just gone. But Rabbit has a trick up her sleeve to stop her friend […]
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Review: Bots and Bods: How Robots and Humans Work
Does a robot really see, hear and sense the way humans do? This informative book by author John Andrews is packed with detailed facts, information and illustrations that will answer all your questions. Every facet of what makes us human […]
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Review: Earth’s Aquarium.
This over-sized book is a joy to look at. With richly detailed illustrations of the various aquatic environments, children will be fascinated and want to linger over each double-page spread. This book explores a number of different wetland, river […]
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Guest Post: Kesta Fleming on Stage Presence (or How NOT to Perform Magic)
Kesta Fleming recently visited KBR to share her current favourite reads, which you’ll find in her Look What I’m Reading post. This revealing article gives us better insight behind the motivation for the latest title in her spirited, Marlow Brown […]
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Review: The Little Coven
The Little Coven is picture book magic! Filled with golden flowing rhyme, it’s a delicious read that makes music with words. There’s a clearing in the forest where the moss and mushrooms grow, Where three little witches gather beneath the […]
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12 Curly Questions with author Steve Heron
1. Tell us something hardly anyone knows about you. I failed English at High School. 2. What is your nickname? Fish – although it doesn’t get used a lot nowadays. When I worked with street kids many years ago, they […]
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Review : Elsewhere Girls
This clever and highly entertaining novel is written by two authors, writing one voice each. It is early 2021. Cat and her family have moved from country Victoria to the city. Cat has won a sports scholarship into Victoria College. […]
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